MARCH CRAFT SHOW

We had a great time at the show and were kept busy all the time.  The photos below show some of our merry crew and the size of the stand that we had.  It was a long stand with Judy Minter and Paula Whippy on the lower end selling, the teaching tables in the middle and the sign on and enquiry table on the upper end.  Thanks to our sponsors, Expertise and Chroma who provided us with this space and our paints, aprons and books.

 

 

 

 

 

Deirdre manning our sign in table.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Classes in progress.  Thanks to our many helpers who assisted the students to complete their project.  Without them the classes would have been very hard to handle.  They watched for mistakes, gave advice and picked up the mess after, cleaned brushes and sponges, re-laid the tables for the next class and essentially made the classes run smoothly and helped but happy smiles on faces.

 

The chook pattern was drawn on the bag and blocked in with colour.  Wings, crops, wattles etc. were added and then they had lots of fun painting long curling strokes in all colours in paint and Kindy Glitz to make a very flamboyant tail on the rooster.

 

Happy smiles with the finished project and some won books (given by Chroma) in lucky draws.

 

Bags were left to hang on the wall between classes to dry.  Students came back to pick them up before going home.

 

The butterfly was a stencil in negative and positive.  Very easy to do and everyone's came out a success and very pretty.

More happy faces with their projects.

A time to pause for a laugh.

Wendy D. came from Grafton to help at the show.  Thanks Wendy, your company added to the fun and laughter at the show.

Gail teaching her Rooster.

Brushes cleaned for the next class.

 

Oh! the bucket brigade!!  To acquire water to clean brushes and sponges etc.  we had to walk down to the storage room way at the back of the centre and navigate around open, spilling boxes to the sink.  Of course it was a small sink and we couldn't get the bucket under the tap????  O.K. so a little invention was needed.  We used this curved ag. pipe to funnel water through while holding the bucket at the edge of the sink.  Worked a treat but had to be careful to tip it up before putting down the bucket to turn off the tap or we got rather wet feet. 

 

We are now gearing up for the October show.  We don't teach at this show but we do have a nice guild stand and sell painted Christmas items.  So if you are in the area then, come and see us and say hello.

MARCH PROJECT

Our meeting in March will have another small project for those who want to participate.  Gail is going to teach us 'tea bag painting' on water colour paper.  These little projects are small and quick and easy to do.  A permanent pen is needed for the sketchy outline so look back before March and I will have the details for you. 

 

This little workshop is free to members and $5.00 to non members.  We will meet at 9.00 am and have a meeting at 10.00 am, followed by the workshop. 

 

If you don't want to participate in the workshop please still come along with your own piece you are working on.  Don't forget, morning and afternoon tea are supplied but it is good if you bring your own mug. 

 

Hope to see you then.

FEBRUARY 1ST WORKSHOP

Our workshop with Lorraine Wingfield was great.  Lorraine is a patient and generous teacher and we all enjoyed our day enormously.  Our canvases were 50cm x 60cm, so quite a nice size on which to work.  Firstly the surface was buttered with texture paste, then painted black, after which the pattern was traced on.

 

The leaves were base coated in green and then highlighted and shadowed.  The black background was allowed to show through where the shadows were darkest.

Deirdre (above) and Jenny are both doing well.

 

Lorraine often sat with a member when they needed some extra help.

 

Judy has almost finished the leaves

 

Lorraine highlighting the leaves.  We used a large filbert brush for most of the work and used it 'dirty', meaning we did not wash the brush between colours.

 

In Vi's (above)  and Pam's (below) pieces you can see the pattern in white graphite quite well

 

 

Wendy D. came a long way to take part in our workshop and you can see here that we had begun to base and highlight the petals.  The centre stamens were lovely commas in red and yellow. 

 

 

 

 

The centre was washed with purple when finished which brought it back down into the flower.  

 

Lorrain is demonstrating the centre commas.  She painted so effortlessly and was so willing to show the steps as often as we needed.  Lorraine has the ability to help you relax during the class and any difficulty is overcome with ease with her help.

 

Our happy group at the end of the day with the project almost finished.  Well done everyone!  But next time we might leave the fire hose out of the pic.....do you think?

 

This is Wendy D.'s finished waterlily.  She emailed it to me this morning.  Very nice Wendy, thank you for sending it on to us.

FEBRUARY 1ST, WORKSHOP

 

Hi All,  this is sudden news but we have Lorraine Wingfield coming to teach us a wonderful canvas in February.  This is the only time Lorraine had to come before starting her teaching programmes for the year.

This is a large canvas, 60cm x 45cm, (2' x 1.5'), of a beautiful waterlily (pic attached).  There is a lot of prep work to be done on the canvas before you get it so we need to know for sure who will be coming.  So here are the details, 

WHEN:

Saturday, 1st February starting at 9.00 am. 

WHERE:

Arthur Scurr Room, Mt Gravatt Show Grounds, Logan Road, Mt Gravatt (our usual venue) 

COST:

$25.00 + cost of canvas ($11.00) for members

$60.00 + cost of canvas ($11.00) for non-members 

A non-refundable deposit of $15.00 must be deposited and cleared into the DFAQ bank by Tuesday, 21st January, 2014.  Either send a cheque or make a direct deposit - details below. 

Morning and afternoon tea is provided, bringing your own cup/mug is a help. Bring your lunch too. 

Please email DFAQ to express your interest - dfaqinc@gmail.com . 

BANKING DETAILS 

Bank..   Westpac, Albany Creek.

BSB..     034272  Acct. No. 120394

Account name, Decorative Folk Artists of Qld. Inc. 

Please note - membership is $35.00 if you wish to join and participate in this and subsequent workshops at member’s rates.  Contact details are below. 

If making a direct deposit please insert the word ‘workshop’ and your name in ‘reference’ and if sending a cheque please make the cheque out to Decorative Folk Artists of Qld. Inc. and not DFAQ and post to the address below marking it ‘Workshop’ instead of Membership.

 

Payment by         □   Cheque – made out to “Decorative Folk Artists of Qld Inc” – not DFAQ

                              □  M/Order          

             □  Direct Deposit  banking details: Westpac, Albany Creek BSB 034272  Acct No. 120394

                               In reference field, please put your name and the word “membership”  -  advise  Membership Officer or Treasurer that payment deposited.

Please post cheques or money orders to:-

DFAQ Inc

Membership,

c/- D. Hasson,

79 Heckleman Street,

Carina, Q, 4152

Membership enquiries should be made to -

Membership Officer  -

Faye Goddard  07 3264 2334

 

 

STITCHES AND CRAFT SHOW

The Craft show was a wonderful success.  Thank you to all who helped by painting items for sale and/or manning the stall.  We sold Christmas decorations as we usually do but we decorated the back of the stall with member's projects.  It did look pretty (well I thought so!) and we sold all our decorations!  Some of our out-of-towners painted items and posted them in.  Thank you so much for that, the pieces were beautiful and assured us that we were part of a larger community.   An interesting note: quite a few people came to the stall looking for a teacher.  They had painted in the past and wanted to pick it up again.  We helped with our teacher's list but so far they have not decided to join our ranks, but maybe there is going to be turn in the craft and we will pick up members again.

 

We had a lovely visit by Wendy Donoghue from Grafton who helped with the stall for two days.  I am told they had a lot of fun on those days....  Thanks Wendy.

 

Our raffle was won by Sandra Hundloe of Chapel Hill and will be delivered to her soon.

 

Deirdre busily decorating the stall

 

Adding the painted bags.  They sold out in two days

 

 

A lovely photo of Vi and our completed stall.  They painting of boats in harbour was our raffle.

 

This gorgeous painting was on a topper for a bottle to give filled with goodies.  Faye painted it on a circle of calico and attached to the top of the bottle with a lovely red ribbon

These were small bags about 6"x6" and were very popular with the little girls

Some of the items sent to us from out of town

 

This fun painting and the one above were done by Vi.  Aren't they great

 

 We were asked at the last minute to put an entry into the Woman's Weekly Challenge.  Below is our offering.  We didn't win first prize????? but each entry received $150.00 worth of books from the Woman's Weekly.  This consisted of three books, one on knitting and two very large tombs on cooking.  All lovely books.  We decided that three names of all who helped at the show would be drawn to receive the books.  Those details will be in our next newsletter.

 

We were asked to write in 50 words or less the inspiration for our piece.  Gum flowers and wattle were chosen being Australian flowers, the title was in green and gold, again Australian colours, the cupcake was in reference to their celebration with a 'High Tea', and the images around the cupcake are covers of Woman's Weekly from 1935 to 2013. 

 

So if you came to the show I hope you had a great time and hope to see you again next year.  Remember we will be back in March with a larger stand and lessons.

SHOW AND TELL

Just a couple of pics from our October meeting. 

 

I painted these bags for sale at our October Craft Show

I had to show you this!  It's Jenny's handbag, isn't it gorgeous!

OCOTBER MEETING

Our October meeting was a lovely workshop taught by Judy Minter.  Judy chose a pattern from Kay Kairahnel's book (permission granted).  We started with a cream background and then stencilled in the basic 'chook'.  A rather scary wash of burnt umber over all of that and then detailing in the feathers, and everything else.  We all enjoyed this technique even though we doubted it when we put that dark wash over the bird.





Judy in teaching mode

 

This is my 'chook' and I lost some detail so cheated by fingering in some white

 

Deirdre is relaxing awhile as Jenny and Carolyn labour on

 

This is Judy's finished piece.  Love that wire don't you?

Mary is contemplating her next step. I think it may be a cup of coffee

Can you see that dark wash..... Vi is handling it very well

Carolyn is bringing out the detail

Judy encouraging Mary. 

A finished 'chook'

Hmmm....  this one is sideways. Sorry.

They all looked good, didn't they

Deirdre's work is so neat and her brush strokes are always soft and precise

All of the 'chooks' above are from other painters

The finished project!  All looked great